Led global talent acquisition function, including design and execution of TA strategy, accelerating strategic growth plans. Enhanced team experience and built a culture of high performance and connectivity aligned with organizational goals. Increased qualified hires by 20% globally across 100+ countries while mentoring a high-performing team of 45. Centralized TA operations, establishing an agile organizational structure with best-in-class tools and technologies to optimize efficiency and elevate candidate experience. ● Crafted a magnetic Employer Value Proposition (EVP) and Employer Branding strategy, attracting top talent with innovative recruitment marketing and tools. ● Led the identification of critical talent needs and capability gaps across business units and geographies. Leveraged these insights to shape effective recruiting strategies, prioritizing talent acquisition for the most critical roles.● Streamlined application, interview, and offer processes, resulting in an 18% increase in qualified candidate pools. This optimization leveraged process analysis and technology to improve efficiency and attract top talent.● Spearheaded the development and implementation of a data-driven talent acquisition strategy. This strategy, leveraging a metric-based framework, optimized the recruiting process, resulting in a 10-day reduction in time-to-fill.● Pioneered significant growth in talent acquisition through strategic optimization of university relations, employee referrals, and veteran hiring programs.● Increased the talent pool by 20% through proactive external market outreach. Identified and leveraged new talent sources, building a ready talent pipeline of qualified candidates for future critical hiring needs.● Partnered and drove DEI strategy with increased focus on diversity hiring, ensured all open requisitions had diverse candidate slate.

Drive the overall recruiting strategy, process, and execution to ensure Sonesta is attracting and hiring the best diverse talent to support multiple acquisitions over a short period of time. ● Lead the enterprise recruiting teams that are responsible for delivering more than 10,000 hires for corporate and field positions to support over 400% growth of the business in a short period of time.● Reduced time to fill by 20% by optimizing the recruiting process; streamlining the application, interview and offer process.● Increase total new hires by 15% each month by continually adapting the recruiting strategy to overcome a challenging highly competitive labor market.● Drove over 45,000 new applicants into the Workday talent pool by adding new creative partnerships and amplifying the employee referral program – a 43% increase in 1 year.● Drive data driven recruitment metrics and analytics that provides talent pipeline and attraction strategy insights to delivery speed to hire quality talent. ● Monitor, analyze and communicate external business and talent market intelligence and trends and regularly share that intelligence with business leaders to inform optimal business and talent decisions.

Wolverine Worldwide is a global leader in the footwear industry, growing our presence in more than 200 countries through a steadfast passion for innovative products that empower, engage and inspire our consumers. Manufacturing, retail stores & direct to consumer.Lead global talent acquisition teams, strategies and tactics that engage best talent to drive and fulfill WWW’s strategies and goals through collaborative relationships both across enterprise internally, and externally through an enviable network of talent.• Achieved over 3K hires in 2019 by building, engaging and unleashing a global team that delivered talent plans through teamwork, pride in each other and curiosity to explore new ideas.• Increased candidate pipeline 25% by deploying the best in class talent acquisition strategies, systems and processes, including new employee referral program, careers website, CRM, streamlined hiring process, candidate assessment tools, metrics and data analytics. • Saved over $600K by creating and managing an in-house executive recruiting process, workflow, including tracking and candidate presentation. • Reduced time to hire 10 days by improving recruiter effectiveness, overhauling metrics and analytics capability, streamlining reporting and introducing predictive recruiting capabilities.• Ensured talent capabilities to drive strategy and achieve business plans by analyzing business needs and engages business partners, creating talent plans to fill the gaps. • Finished under budget by $45K through effective vendor management, constantly measuring effectiveness against service agreements and results.

Led and set strategic direction on all elements of recruitment marketing, sourcing, reporting, analytics, compliance, vendor management and OFCCP compliance for the largest division with 63K employees. • Managed integration of 3-company merger and acquisition’s TA technology, processes, tools, policies and realigned recruitment teams to operate efficiently under the newly formed company.• Accomplished over 15,000 hires by leading and developing a team of 5 Recruiting Managers, 31 Recruiters and 6 Coordinators.• Redesigned “recruiting roadmap” building standardized processes and tools including; recruiter dashboard, salary calculator, process flow maps and internship program.• Reduced time to hire 15% by maximizing recruiter effectiveness and optimizing the candidate experience. • Executed social media program to build brand awareness, source candidates and increase candidate pools.• Developed Outreach toolkit to continually build a diverse candidate pipeline and build relationships with key organizations and schools.• Achieved 100% staffing levels by creating “Real Time Hiring”, a proactive recruitment strategy taking into account future turnover, promotions or movement to maintain staffing levels.

Launched strategic vision for the Talent Management process which included recruitment, succession planning, performance management, talent development, diversity and university recruitment strategies.• Reduced days open by 30% implementing a proactive recruitment strategy, creating a talent pool of ready to offer candidates.• Analyzed recruitment strategies, metrics and strategically directed team, maximizing efficiency to meet current and future business needs.• Executed a deep analysis of the University recruiting teams and programs resulting in increased hiring results and reduced cost per hire. • Partnered with senior leadership teams to develop and translate the organizations strategy, building trust and influencing decisions that aligned with the overall mission, vision and values. • Defined and developed standards, metrics and reporting to ensure that the TA teams were meeting the needs of the business.

Managed complete recruitment process of a $4B North East division. Developed and coached 6 Recruiting Captains, Campus Recruiter and Recruiting Specialist on company best practices.• Streamlined recruiting process into effective recruiting structure, ultimately leading to 16 days to hire average.• Led Talent Management process by partnering with executive management to accurately forecast staffing needs.• Developed and implemented recruiting, sourcing and diversity plans, supporting hiring goals.• Educated and influenced leaders in assessment and selection process of executive candidates.• Managed financially sound decisions monitoring recruiting expenses, ensuring expenses were controlled.• Ensured compliance on all process, staffing, development, retention and brand management programs and best practices.• Participated as Subject Matter Expert on company wide recruitment enhancement projects.